Top 10 Picnic Food Ideas and Recipes

When the weather is beautiful there is nothing better than a picnic, and Food & Wine has terrific picnic food ideas that are both tasty and easy to transport. F&W’s best picnic food ideas include delicious picnic recipes for appetizers, like potato salad with bacon and healthy, Middle Eastern-inspired tomato, cucumber and sweet onion salad. For dessert, milk-chocolate cookies stuffed with malted cream make the perfect picnic recipe. Plus, fantastic picnic recipes for a crowd like olive tapenade with tangy dried figs and grilled-vegetable gazpacho.

Only slightly more involved than Andreas Viestad's supersimple tomato salad, this version is inspired by Middle Eastern cuisine. A sprinkling of toasted cumin seeds ground with salt gives the summery salad a warm depth of flavor. Any leftover cumin salt is terrific on grilled chicken or roasted potatoes.